Abstract
Breast milk plays an essential role for offspring development; however, there lacks evidence of how specific milk components like nucleic acids mechanistically function to regulate neonate development. Previously, we found that maternal high-fat diet (HFD) not only significantly affected mRNA and miRNA content of the secreted milk transcriptome in mice but also affected the duodenal proteome of suckling pups. Here, we hypothesized that nucleic acids differentially expressed in milk of HFD fed dams are related to differentially abundant proteins in offspring duodenum nursed by HFD dams. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing one-to-one relationships in RNA-seq data of milk transcriptomes from control (10% kcal fat) and HFD (60% kcal fat) fed mice and liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) duodenal proteome data from pups exposed to milk. Ten percent of differentially abundant duodenal proteins between controls and HFD-exposed pups had predicted upregulation or downregulation based on differential milk RNA content. Of these, 76% were targets of upregulated miRNA, and linear regression analysis indicated relationships (p < 0.05) between multiple milk miRNA counts and duodenal protein abundance. Duodenal proteins that were potential targets of milk miRNA enriched Gene Ontology (GO) terms and KEGG pathways related to cytoskeletal structure and neural development, suggesting potential regulation of pup enteric nervous system. One-to-one relationships between milk miRNA content and protein abundance in neonate duodenum support the potential for milk miRNAs regulating neonate development. Identification of milk miRNAs that changed in response to maternal diet will enable design of mechanistic studies that test effects on neonate.
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This project was supported, in part, by the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute funded by Award Number UL1TR001108 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. This activity was also funded by Purdue as part of AgSEED Crossroads funding to support Indiana’s Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Huff, K., Suárez-Trujillo, A., Kuang, S. et al. One-to-one relationships between milk miRNA content and protein abundance in neonate duodenum support the potential for milk miRNAs regulating neonate development. Funct Integr Genomics 20, 645–656 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-020-00743-y
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